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44 p.

Description

This interview of Richard Berreth, former Vice President of the Normandale Division, and Tom Murnan, former Program Manager for the Storage Module Drive (SMD), focuses on the period from the early 1970s to the early 1980s, when Control Data Corporation (CDC) developed the SMD disk drive family. This product family was widely adopted by the mini-computer industry and propelled Magnetic Peripherals Inc (MPI), CDC's disk drive joint venture formed with Honeywell in 1975, to over $1 billon in revenue by 1981. Berreth and Murnan discuss their backgrounds, roles, and memories of what it was like at CDC / MPI during this period and why the SMD family was so successful.